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PC Clock

Version 4.50 · Michael Sadaway

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Description

The HP Palmtop Paper PCCLOCK v4.5 Calls NIST, USNO, or NRC atomic clocks or CompuServe to get the time and sets PC's clock by modem to exact time by calling U.S. or Canadian atomic clock or to nearest minute by calling local CompuServe access number. Shareware.

Technical details

File
pcclk450.zip
Size
166.1 KB
Format
.zip
Year
1998
Added to S.U.P.E.R.
1998-12-20
Files inside
7
Author
Michael Sadaway
Path
anonftp/pub/pcclk450.zip

How to install it

What to send to the palmtop saves 82.1 KB

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

  • PCCLOCK.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 153.8 KB
  • SETUP.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 98.2 KB

No need to put FILE_ID.DIZ, PCCLOCK.ICO, USRGUIDE.TXT, VENDINFO.DIZ, WHATSNEW.TXT: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 82.1 KB on a 1 MB disk.

Steps
  1. Copy PCCLOCK.EXE, SETUP.EXE to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

The author's instructions 
1.  SETUP sometimes failed to complete DOS and Windows 3.x
     installations.

Literal excerpt from WHATSNEW.TXT, exactly as it came in the package.

Send to my palmtop

The palmtop must be waiting before you press the button, or the transfer will fail. It is the palmtop that announces it is ready, not the other way round.

First time? How to connect the palmtop, step by step →

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